For this call — during National Nurses Week — Dr. Alon will discuss her goals for HMO nursing, exciting research developments at the Hadassah Medical Organization, and the interplay between her new professional role and personal commitment to women's rights, women's health, and health education.

Previously, Dr. Alon directed the Henrietta Szold Hadassah-Hebrew University Nursing Extension at Assaf HaRofeh Hospital in Beer Yaakov and headed the Women's Health Center of the Maccabi Sick Fund. One of Israel's few nurse practitioners and a qualified midwife, Dr. Alon has a PhD in gender studies from Bar-Ilan University and a BA in nursing from Tel Aviv University. She was born in Israel to Holocaust survivor parents.

For 100 years, Hadassah nurses have led the way in Israel. Help us mark the 100th anniversary of the Henrietta Szold Hadassah-Hebrew University School of Nursing.

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IMPORTANT: Please note that Dr. Alon cannot offer personal advice on an individual health matter. Questions should be about her work at Hadassah's hospitals or other general questions about nurses in Israel.

B'Shalom,

Ellen Hershkin
National President

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“The vision of world-renowned Prof. Isaac Caesar Michaelson, former Director of the Hadassah Medical Organization’s Department of Ophthalmology, of creating in 1973 The Jerusalem Institute for the Prevention of Blindness still amazes me,” says Dr. Claudia Yahalom, current head of the renamed Michaelson Institute for Rehabilitation of Vision at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem.

The intensity of his cry alerted Elisha Alush’s parents that something serious had happened to their seven-year-old. He ran in from the backyard of their home near Jericho, north of Jerusalem, screaming, “My foot, my foot.” And then he lost consciousness.

Mickey Peretz, age 36, began his evening at a Beitar Jerusalem soccer game. Little did he know that he would end the evening being the first patient to receive a life-saving heart catheterization in Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem’s brand new Irma and Paul Milstein Heart Center.